Ron Davini
Former Head Baseball Coach

Corona del Sol High School
Tempe, Arizona
1977-2005
(410 Wins - 352 Losses 6 Ties at CdS)
(444 wins - 368 Losses 6 Ties over-all)

Ron graduated from Anaheim High School in Anaheim, California (1965). He received his BA from Arizona State University while on scholarship. He played on the National Championship team in 1967 as a catcher earning the awards of "College Player of the Year" (from Columbus Ohio Touchdown Club) and "Most Valuable Player" in the College World Series. These awards placed Ron in the Baseball Hall of Fame, college section, in Cooperstown, New York. His senior year, he signed with the Chicago White Sox after being drafted by numerous other teams. For the next five years (1969-1973), he taught high school in California and Arizona and played professional baseball. He was a teacher and coach in the Tempe Union High School District for 34 years.

Ron Davini retired from teaching and coaching after 28 years as the head coach of the Corona del Sol Aztecs, a program he started when the school opened in 1977. The Corona del Sol Varsity Baseball Program won its 400th game in 2005. He moved on by taking over as the Executive Director of the National High School Baseball Coaches Association.

After retiring from teaching, Ron was a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Chaparral High School (Scottsdale, AZ) for 5 years. He then moved to Tempe Prep Academy (Tempe, AZ) for 3 years. He turned around a nonexistent baseball program at TPA and led them to their first ever State Play-offs in 2012 and 2013. Ron is currently back at Corona del Sol as a volunteer coach, helping with the freshman team and working with all catchers in the program.

Ron has been involved with many professional organizations supporting the game of baseball throughout his coaching career. Ron was on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Coaches Association from 1977-1997. In that position, he assisted in setting up clinics for coaches, supervised All Star selections, and co-directed the Arizona Senior All Star games. In 1997, Ron spearheaded the establishment of the Arizona Baseball Coaches Association to promote Arizona baseball throughout the state and across the country. This organization sponsors and coordinates four All Star games, sponsors two Arizona teams to the Sunbelt tournaments (Oklahoma), continues to hold annual coaches clinics, and has established the Arizona Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. He was the President of the National Baseball Coaches Association (1997) and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of this organization (BCA). He has attended the American Baseball Coaches annual clinics for the over 35 years, and the entire National High School Baseball Association clinic as well.

Since 1988, Ron has been involved with USA Baseball. He has served on the nominating committee for Arizona athletes to play in the National Olympic Festival games, as well as on the West selection board for the same games until 1995. Ron was on the USA Board of Directors representing the National High School Baseball Coaches Association (NHSBCA) and is now on the USA Baseball Youth Committee.

Ron has coached three Junior National (18-under) teams in World Championship competition, twice as an assistant (1993 silver medal and 1995 gold medal). As head coach in 1996, the USA Team traveled to Cuba to win the bronze medal. In 1997, he coached the USA Junior Team in the first Pan American qualifying tournament in Brazil. The team qualified for the World Tournament with a 3rd place (bronze medal) finish.

He worked closely with USA Baseball during the summer as Technical Advisor to the Junior Olympic Baseball Tournament. In 2003, Ron was selected by USA Baseball to help coach the Youth National Baseball Team (16-under) in their World Championships Tournament in Kaoshuing, Taiwan. They came home with the World Championship-Gold Medal.

Ron was actively involved with baseball camps throughout the years. Between 1991-1993, he was involved in the first international youth baseball exchange program with Russia. For three summers (1991-93), he traveled to Russia with a team for four weeks and instructed baseball in that country. He was Co-Director of the Telluride Baseball Camp (Telluride, Colorado) after assisting with its conception for over 20 years. He started and ran the "DEVO" fall baseball camp (9-10 weeks) at Corona drawing about 100 campers from nine different middle and high Schools. This camp was part of the USA Baseball Development Program.

Many other accolades belong to Ron. He was selected as Corona del Sol's Teacher of the Year in the 1991-92 school year. Ron was also the 1995 Corona del Sol Tempe Diablo Award winner in the Physical Education Department. Three times he was selected as a National Finalist for High School (1992/1999 NHSC & 1993 ABCA) Baseball Coach of the Year. In 1995, Walt Disney Productions selected Ron as one of the top 60 teachers in America and his video profile was shown on the Disney channel. He has been a speaker at many national clinics (ABCA 3 times, BCA 3 times, NHSCA 2 times, AzBCA-many times, NMHSCA 2 times, OBCA 2 times, GBCA, California BCA, Utah BCA, Toronto Baseball Canada and WBCA. Ron was a commissioner on the Arizona Baseball Commission (selected by the governor of the state) for five years (1995-2000). In 1997, Ron was selected as the USA National Amateur Baseball Coach of the Year (by USA Baseball and MLB Players Organization).

In 2001, Ron was inducted into the Arizona Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Arizona Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

On January 1, 2005, Ron was named as the Executive Director of the National High School Baseball Coaches Association. This is an organization Ron has been involved with since they started in 1991. On December 31, 2017, Ron retired from this position, but still stays involved with this organization.

In 2005, the National High School Athletic Coaches Association selected Ron as the National High School Baseball Coach of the Year. He was also select by Aflac to coach in the Aflac All American High School baseball game that was broadcasted on national television. He guided the West team to a victory over the East team. On December 5, 2008, Ron was inducted into the National High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Chicago, Illinois. “This award really should be shared with the players and assistant coaches who have played or work for me over the years.” as quoted by Ron.

Ron was inducted into the Anaheim High School Hall of Fame, which is his high school alma mater, November 4th, 2010. He was also inducted into the Corona del Sol High School Hall of Fame on January 20, 2016. He wias inducted into the Arizona State University Athletic Hall of Fame on October 2017.

On January 4, 2019, Ron was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Dallas, Texas. The ABCA is an orhanization of 10,000+ coaches from all levels of baseball (college, junior college, high School, etc.) across the country.

Ron is married to Dr. Patty Vogel. He has a daughter (Cindy) and granddaughter (Sarandan).

Former Executive Director National High School Baseball Coaches Association

List of Assistant Coaches (1977-2005) during Former Head Coach Ron Davini Year’s at Corona del Sol:

Last Name	First Name	Level(s) Coached
Alvarez	David	JV
Amaro*	Leon	Varsity
Armstrong	Jim	Varsity/JV/Frosh
Barber	Randy	Varsity/JV
Brooks	Mike	JV
Burford	Mike	Varsity/JV
Castro	Frank	JV/Varsity
Centanni	Scott	Varsity/JV/Frosh
Coffey	Stacey	JV
Dawson*	Scott	JV/Frsoh
Denton	Jim	JV/Frosh
Duane Jr.	Sammy	JV
Elder*	Chris	Frosh
Fleming*	Brian	Varsity/JV
Fouts	Kyle	JV
Froehlich*	Greg	JV
Gilbert	Bob	Varsity/JV
Helsel	Rob	Frosh
Himmelstein	David	JV
Hoffland*	Troy	JV
Ikea	Dan	Varsity
Kelly	Rob	Frosh
Kooi	Mark	JV
LeBlanc	Roger	Varsity
Ledbetter	Adam	JV
Leonard	Mark	JV
Leuck	Matt	Varsity/JV/Frosh
Lindsey*	Travis	JV

Lindsey*	Troy	Frosh
Lorig*	Brian	JV
Martinson*	Brad	Frosh
McDonald	Sean	JV/Frosh
McGee	Coach	JV
Mirizio	Frank	JV/Frosh
Nenaber*	Cory	Varsity
Olivarez	Mark	JV
O’Malley*	Brian	JV
Sandoval	Raul	Varsity/JV/Frosh
Senall	Mark	Frosh
Singer	Jack	Varsity
Treat*	Marty	Frosh
Webb	Charlie	Varsity
Webb	David	Varsity

* Former Aztec Players

A “BIG THANK YOU” goes out to all of them for helping with the CdS Baseball Program during his time as Head Baseball Coach.